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la biblioteca de babel: Primate Visions
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La biblioteca de babel. Friday, June 22, 2007. Jane Goodall, the white-bodied stranger, with a baby from another species. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. London: Routledge, 1989). The awesome Donna Haraway. Professor in UC/Santa Cruz' departments of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies. She has a PhD in biology, but has worked on the "humanities" side of things for years. It looks to me as though Visions. 1991); the awkwardly titled (surely on purpose!
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la biblioteca de babel: Crimes Against Nature
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La biblioteca de babel. Saturday, May 17, 2008. Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, and Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation. University of California Press, 2001). Who now teaches at Brown (and who got his PhD from Yale's history program), is working on a second book about cultural remembrance of violence against Native Americans since frontier times. He describes himself as interested in how "human and non-human actors" create history in mutuality. Society for Li...
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la biblioteca de babel: June 2008
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La biblioteca de babel. Sunday, June 1, 2008. William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: WW Norton, 1991). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mighty Habitat," by Zak Cushing. This ongoing project is a perhaps futile attempt to capture, ensnare, seduce, manipulate, and otherwise contain the knowledge I glean while reading for my oral examinations in American Studies. War and the military. Dissertation Notes: Children and Modernity, Deep Time, Futurity. American Studies at UT.
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la biblioteca de babel: Cultures of United States Imperialism
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La biblioteca de babel. Saturday, May 31, 2008. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham: Duke UP, 1993). Some of the noteworthy essays that I may need to refer to later:. Donna Haraway's "Teddy Bear Patriarchy," on the fear of degeneration and white male anxiety in the founding of the AMNH (this essay originally appeared in Social Text. And also appears in Primate Visions. Vincente Rafael's "White Love: Surveillance and Nat...
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la biblioteca de babel: Through Other Continents
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La biblioteca de babel. Sunday, May 18, 2008. Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). Is in the English and American Studies departments at Yale. She recently co-edited a book on transnationalism and literary studies, Shades of the Planet. With Lawrence Buell; has written a book on Melville and individualism; and co-edited, with Priscilla Wald, a special issue of American Literature. Which I should read:. Duke UP, 2002).
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la biblioteca de babel: Natural Visions
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La biblioteca de babel. Monday, May 19, 2008. Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Throughout, Dunaway argues that environmental reformers who used art in their appeals passed over Benjamin's anxieties about the efficacy of the mechanically reproduced work of art, choosing instead to believe that their art could create a new "ecological sublime" (shades of David Nye. But my question is: does it work? This ongoin...
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la biblioteca de babel: The Bulldozer in the Countryside
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La biblioteca de babel. Friday, May 30, 2008. The Bulldozer in the Countryside. Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001). Teaches at Penn State, and writes that he is working on a book about Earth Day and another about environmentalism of the Progressive Era. I hope he comes out with the latter before I write my dissertation, so that I may read it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This ongoing project is a per...
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la biblioteca de babel: December 2007
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La biblioteca de babel. Wednesday, December 26, 2007. Images from leftist artist. S 1930 illustrated version of. Which was sold through the Book-of-the-Month Club and revived the book's popularity. Kent was asked to do a version of Richard Henry Dana's. Two Years Before the Mast. But proposed the Melville classic instead. Weirdly enough, the cover of this version did not credit Melville (is Moby-Dick himself the author? Moby-Dick, or, The Whale. Was there anything the Mum couldn't do? This book was total...
